[MEncoder-users] mencoder -> x264 ?

[Bob Tennent]

I've been using

mencoder $FILE.mpg -o $FILE.mp4 -oac mp3lame -ovc x264

to compress output from a TV capture card. But the mplayer package on my
system has just been updated from

mplayer-1.0-74_snap20100403.fc12

to

mplayer-1.0-76_snap20100619.fc12

and now x264 is not listed by mencoder -ovc help. Was the binary package
not built correctly or has x264 been deprecated? What should I use
instead?

Bob T.